The Royal Danish Ballet

Cal Performances' dance season wraps up with a thrilling
finale by the Royal Danish Ballet,
in its first Bay Area performances in fifty years. Founded in 1748, Royal Danish
is the world's third-oldest ballet company and a source of both marvelous
classical ballets and edgy contemporary works. On Tuesday and Wednesday, May
31-June 1, the company performs its most famous creation, August Bournonville's Romantic-era tragedy La Sylphide,
along with The Lesson, Fleming Flindt's ballet adaptation
of Ionesco's absurdist play of the same name. The mood gets modern on Friday
and Saturday, June 3-4, with four new and repertory pieces by several of
dance's northern lights: Thomas Lund, NikolajHübbe, JormaElo,
Johan Kobborg, and JormaUotinen, whose raw, primal Earth is danced by fourteen male dancers to music by Metallica and Apocalyptica. 8 p.m., $34-$62. 510-642-9988 or
CalPerformances.org